Gary J. Palmer Stock Trades

Gary J. Palmer Stock Trading Disclosures

The most striking pattern in Rep. Gary J. Palmer's disclosure record is a single transaction date, October 5, 2018, on which dozens of separate sale transactions occurred, touching companies as different as Apple, Northern Trust, Marathon Petroleum, Boeing, Sysco, Comcast and Amgen. Those transactions were disclosed on November 7, 2018. That one transaction date accounts for a large share of the 69 total sales in the record and reads less like a series of individual stock calls and more like a broad sale wave across a wide range of names on the same day.

The record covers transactions dated from November 17, 2015 through October 5, 2018, a total of 261 disclosed transactions: 192 purchases and 69 sales. Attribution matters here. Of the 261 transactions, 74 are coded SELF, 128 are coded SP (spouse) and 59 are coded JT (joint); none are attributed to a dependent child or left unattributed. In other words, the largest share of the disclosed activity in this record is attributed to a spouse's account rather than to Palmer personally, and a further chunk is joint. Any reading of this record as a picture of Palmer's own trading decisions has to account for that split.

How the Pattern Has Shifted Within the Record

The year-by-year figures in the disclosure record show a clear shift in composition. In 2017, the record shows 71 transactions, overwhelmingly purchases: 67 buys against just 4 sales. In 2018, the record shows 189 transactions, a mix of 125 purchases and 64 sales. A single 2015 transaction, a sale, is the earliest entry. Read together, the record moves from a year that was almost entirely purchase activity to a year that combined continued buying with a much heavier volume of selling, concentrated in that October 2018 transaction wave. The record does not include any transaction dates after October 5, 2018, so this profile describes the 2015 to 2018 window the data covers, not activity beyond it.

Several of the 2018 purchase entries carry filing-status language identifying the shares as new entries within specific TD Ameritrade IRA accounts (for example, entries referencing a "TD Ameritrade Gary IRA" or "TD Ameritrade Ann IRA"), which is how the underlying disclosure documents describe where those purchases were booked. Where the record supplies that detail, it is worth noting as part of understanding whose account is transacting, alongside the SELF/SP/JT attribution codes.

Sector activity across the full 261-transaction record breaks down as follows: Unknown, 56 transactions; Financials, 49; Consumer Discretionary, 34; Health Care, 33; Information Technology, 26; Consumer Staples, 20; Industrials, 11; Communication Services, 10; Energy, 9; Materials, 9; and Real Estate, 4. The "Unknown" category is the single largest bucket, reflecting gaps in sector classification for some disclosed securities rather than a distinct investment theme. Among the sectors that are classified, Financials and Consumer Discretionary lead, with Health Care and Information Technology close behind, indicating trading activity spread across large-cap, widely held names rather than concentrated in a narrow niche.

The Most Frequently Disclosed Securities

Ranked by transaction-row count, the securities appearing most often in the record include Apple Inc. (AAPL, 7 transactions, Information Technology), Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC, 7, Energy), Amgen Inc (AMGN, 6, Health Care), Celgene Corporation (CELG, 6, sector not classified in the record), Capital One Financial Corporation (COF, 6, Financials), Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO, 6, Information Technology), Express Scripts Holding Company (ESRX, 6, sector not classified), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT, 6, Information Technology), Sysco Corporation (SYY, 6, Consumer Staples), The TJX Companies Inc (TJX, 6, Consumer Discretionary, all 6 purchases and no sales), and Visa Inc. Class A (V, 6, Financials). Boeing, Mastercard and VMware follow closely at five transactions each.

These are large, well-known operating companies. Apple designs and sells iPhones, Macs and related services; Marathon Petroleum refines and markets transportation fuels through Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent and West Coast operations; Amgen develops biologic therapeutics including Enbrel and Prolia; Capital One is a diversified consumer and commercial bank; Cisco supplies networking and security infrastructure; Microsoft spans productivity software, cloud services and Windows licensing; Sysco distributes food and related products to the foodservice industry; TJX operates off-price retail chains including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls; and Visa operates a global payments processing network. Several of the frequently disclosed names, including TJX, appear only as purchases in this record, distinguishing them from names like Northern Trust or Cisco, which show both buying and selling activity across the disclosed period.

Transactions detailed in the disclosure record are reported in the $1,001 to $15,000 range, the smallest bracket under the disclosure law, in nearly every case shown; a small number of entries, including one TJX purchase, are marked with an unknown amount rather than a range. The filings themselves are public documents, linked below, and the disclosure requirement itself traces to the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, which mandates periodic transaction reporting by members of Congress; the House Committee on Ethics publishes the underlying filing instructions in its financial disclosure instruction guide.

As of the latest published scoring date, August 21, 2026, no score has been calculated for this member; Quantellect's data contains scores for 76 members, including 73 of the 537 sitting members of Congress, while 276 sitting members, including 237 in the House, have no disclosed trades on record at all. Palmer's 261 disclosed transactions place him outside that zero-trade group, but the absence of a score here reflects that no score row exists for this subject as of the latest run, not an assessment of the trading activity itself.

Disclosure Notes

This profile is built entirely from the transactions Rep. Gary J. Palmer has disclosed under federal financial disclosure law and does not reflect the member's complete personal finances. Disclosed transactions may belong to the member, a spouse, a dependent child, or a jointly held account, as indicated by the attribution codes in the underlying filings; where an attribution code indicates a spouse or joint account, this profile describes the trade accordingly rather than as the member's personal decision. Dollar amounts reported in these filings are disclosed as ranges, not exact figures. Nothing in this profile should be read as investment advice or as a suggestion that any transaction was based on nonpublic information. Source filings: 2015 PTR filing, PTR filing, PTR filing, and PTR filing.